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I miss when the web was a demented art goldmine.

Japan’s hilarious Jimi Halloween (jimi means “mundane”) event is where participants dress up in “costumes” that illustrate boring everyday situations.

A recursive recipe is one where ingredients in the recipe can be replaced by another recipe. The more ingredients you replace, the more that the recipe is made truly from scratch.

As an audio engineer, I prefer not to use sounds like dings or rings as reminders while I’m working. Instead, I rely on my sense of smell. When I need to remember an important meeting, I place a slice of bread in my toaster oven, which is connected to a Wemo smart plug. Then, I ask my Google Assistant to turn on the toaster five minutes before the event. When I smell toast, it reminds me that I have a meeting in a few minutes.

Andru Marino, senior audio producer

…home of rotating ramen. So far, 54 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. This is the homepage. It displays a random entry each time it is called.

Play wipEout in the browser, and read the article written about rewriting it.

She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were.

Maya Pasic

He wasn’t superficial; in fact, he couldn’t even swim.

Josh Boyd

It was love at first sight—he was tall and broad-shouldered, with a dimpled smile, twinkling green eyes, and in keeping with his combination of statistically unlikely but deeply alluring features, type AB blood, and that condition where cilantro tastes like soap.

Ananya Benegal